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by olau 7y ago
There's a context-dependent trade-off between analyzing, using the currently available information and what can be reasonably be deduced from that, and experimenting.
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by olau 7y ago
Red flags for me were language and sources. The writer didn't try to test her assumptions, as far as I can tell. I think it's true that Musk went in and tried to save SolarCity by assuming control and changing the course. That was
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by olau 7y ago
We don't need to suggest alternatives here. The market is already supplying them. Yes, long-term storage is expensive. But there are options: Overprovisioning, hydropower, thermal storage if you just need to heat up houses, thermal-ele
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by olau 7y ago
I would change "batteries" to some kind of storage, because while current chemical batteries are beginning to look like it could possibly evolve into something useful for longer term storage, it's not there yet as you say. He
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by olau 7y ago
Because of costs. If you look at the reasons in France, I suspect CO2 did not matter much, but rather that it was a matter of national security. If the European nations of today started to feel threatened, I'm sure you'd see plent
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by olau 7y ago
This is not really my area of expertise, and it's unclear whether you're basing this comment upon an actual analysis or it's just a quick remark? I was trying to explain how the bond rates can go so low. The real-estate lende
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by olau 7y ago
Indeed. I think the situation currently is that you need 5% in downpayment yourself, then the bank can supply the 15% (at a much higher, individual rate) and the real-estate lender will provide the most secure 80%.
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by olau 7y ago
> Danish mortgage bonds are effectively guaranteed by the Danish state I don't think that's true? Can you explain what you mean? It's probably true that a total collapse won't be tolerated, just like a total collapse
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by olau 7y ago
And yes, the negative interest rate at the Danish central bank does translate to negative interest rates for deposits. Not yet for consumers, but corporate accounts have negative rates.
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by olau 7y ago
Some background: In Denmark, mortgages for housing are handled by special real-estate lenders (realkreditinstitutter) who issue bonds and handles defaults. These bonds are considered to be very stable, about the same quality as state bonds,
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by olau 7y ago
I don't understand your thought process. If you have a system where a corrupt organizer can end up amassing power uncontrolled, then sure you're going to end up with dictators. The system is self-selecting for a catastrophe. But t
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by olau 7y ago
Are you sure? The total road transport electrification scenario means falling demand for a long time, probably with a relatively steep part somewhere. I would certainly not want to bet on something requiring a thirty-year horizon to be prof
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by olau 7y ago
> "and need to be reused circa 7.100 times for non organic" No. The conclusion in that study is flawed. They compared across a range of different dimensions, and then took the worst dimension they could find and used that scale
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by olau 7y ago
There's an actual actuarial analysis online somewhere, though I can't remember if it's in German, and the problem is not population size, but a nearly unbounded risk. Take a look at Fukushima and think about what would have h
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by olau 7y ago
Read an intro book on biology at university level. I think I read this one, but feel free to grab a newer one: https://www.amazon.com/Zoology-Robert-Dorit/dp/0030305047/re... I used to read books on physics,
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by olau 7y ago
Minor thing, but Copenhagen is odd with the steam. They're in the process of moving to hot water. The trend is towards heating the water less, houses are getting better insulation, less energy is needed, and the hotter water is more ex
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by olau 7y ago
Investment: I personally think about that. The area I live in is popular due to a good nearby university so I think population will grow at least for the next decade. But in a time frame of 30-60 years... I'm not counting on getting th
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by olau 7y ago
Actually, the packaging format and tooling is only a very small part of the time spent by the people contributing to the distribution. Go read debian-devel - only a very few people are involved in those things. As far as I can tell, almost
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by olau 7y ago
That's wishful thinking. If there's state in that virtual machine, it's probably either stored on the physical host or in a SAN. If it's in the physical host, it has to be fished out of that machine or restored from a ba
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by olau 7y ago
> ... from their self-reports on ritual it seems to largely just be a lot of ... I think most religions boil down to this, when applying enough reduction. Doesn't mean that they don't touch people and give them experiences in
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by olau 7y ago
There are two parts to terrorism: doing something terrible, and spreading the word to upset and frighten lots of people. It's one of the oddities of modern Western societies that you can end up in jail for donating to what you think is
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by olau 7y ago
I know this is perhaps besides the point: but I'm surprised that traffic incident reporting is so low - but then aren't you scraping more intellectual news media than what I would imagine most people would be reading? Not very fam
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by olau 7y ago
Yes! Some organizations are incapable of buying software. Buying yet-to-be-developed software is easy with the right software company - you just need to provide your problems and priorities, and an open mind and let them manage the process.
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by olau 7y ago
Not at all. Read a biology book, or a book on fundamental physics. We really don't understand much about the world yet.
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by olau 7y ago
Perhaps, he could be honest and say, yeah, it's true. We don't think it's a problem because ... but it's something you'll have to live with if you are to use Go. There's precedence, for instance, C# is Microsof
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by olau 7y ago
There are plenty of developers using Linux, though. Time for someone to jump in?
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by olau 7y ago
If you watch the presentation at the Tesla Autonomy Day, the dude in charge of their deep neural network explained that they think basing the whole system upon cameras is necessary since HD maps and LIDAR are too limiting. Basically, the ne
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by olau 7y ago
I only have four small kids, but you're approaching this from the single kid direction. Once you have two, you stop caring as much about the first precious one - because you have two precious ones. So sometimes one has to wait. Repeat
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by olau 7y ago
I don't think so, not for the foreseeable future at least - fusion has to be cheaper than fission to be interesting, and fission is probably too expensive at the moment already.
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by olau 7y ago
While many of Musk's endeavors have huge claims/visions behind them, it seems to me that the people behind them are actually good at testing them in a smaller scale and relatively quickly getting to a point where they are generati

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